Lot 042
HARRIS RIBUT
b. Selangor, 1951
DANCING COUPLE, 2002
Signed and dated (lower left)
Acrylic on canvas
91cm x 91cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor.
ESTIMATE RM 4,000 - 7,000
PRICE REALISED RM 4,480.00 |
Harris Ribut is known for his overly plump women doing household chores or dancing merrily, and in this piece, he depicts a Malay couple dancing gracefully. Though their forms are distinctly voluminous, but there’s nimbleness and grace as these figures do not have elephant feet — on the contrary, their feet are small and pointed, to the point where they resemble a ballerina’s poise, specifically the seventh position.
Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub- editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women. |